The Winter's Tale
Part of The New Cambridge Shakespeare
- Real Author: William Shakespeare
- Editors:
- Susan Snyder
- Deborah T. Curren-Aquino
- Date Published: March 2007
- availability: Available
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521221580
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The New Cambridge Shakespeare appeals to students worldwide for its up-to-date scholarship and emphasis on performance. The series features line-by-line commentaries and textual notes on the plays and poems and an extensive introduction. The Winter's Tale is one of Shakespeare's most varied, theatrically self-conscious, and emotionally wide-ranging plays. Much of the play's copiousness inheres in its generic intermingling of tragedy, comedy, romance, pastoral, and the history play. In addition to dates and sources, the introduction attends to iterative patterns, the nature and cause of Leontes' jealousy, the staging and meaning of the bear episode, and the thematic and structural implications of the figure of Time. Special attention is paid to the ending and its tempered happiness. Performance history is integrated throughout the introduction and commentary. Appendices include the theatrical practice of doubling.
Read more- Details the stage history of the play alongside helpful critical commentary throughout
- Contains thirty illustrations, including photographs of recent productions
- Includes four appendices - including a select chronology of performance history - and a detailed reading list
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'… The New Cambridge Shakespeare produces superb editions that rank with the Arden and the Oxford as the best in the business. This year's The Winter's Tale is no exception.' Studies in English Literature
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- Date Published: March 2007
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521221580
- length: 308 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 161 x 23 mm
- weight: 0.61kg
- contains: 30 b/w illus.
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Introduction: Genre and title
Iterative patterns: sameness with a difference
Leontes' jealousy in criticism and performance
'Exit pursued by a bear'
The figure of Time
Act 5 and the triumphs of Time
The Winter's Tale's sense of an ending: happiness qualified
Date
Sources
Note on the text
List of characters
The play
Supplementary notes
Textual analysis
Appendices: A. Simon Forman's notes on The Winter's Tale
B. Some doubling possibilities in The Winter's Tale
C. The Winter's Tale in performance: selected issues, scenes, and passages
D. The Winter's Tale: a select performance chronology
Reading list.Instructors have used or reviewed this title for the following courses
- Senior Seminar: Shakespeare's Romances
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